On Sunday 04 September 2005 04:52 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > If it isn't fit to be marked stable, it shouldn't be out of > > package.mask. ~arch means "candidate for going stable after more > > testing", not "might work". > > Agreed, but we both know that it's just not how many devs work atm. > Perhaps that is a problem that also needs to be solved? > > There's also the issue that many users are happy running ~arch packages, > but are reluctant to test masked packages (making it difficult to get > enough feedback to move the package to ~arch anyway). This is a bit of > a chicken and egg situation - one that the maintainer arch may provide a > new solution to.
sounds like you suggest to trick ~arch users into testing "unripe" ebuilds/bumps/versions by sending it into ~arch to get the testing done while someone in a chroot would be much better equipped for doing the testing with? > > Best regards, > Stu
pgpFrUo735khK.pgp
Description: PGP signature
